Posted on 01/19/2016 3:07:14 AM PST by Reaganite Republican
How else to explain it... Mark Levin was scratching his aerodynamic dome all last week wondering how these two have evolved into such fervent Trumpster sites,
pumping Trump's disingenuous false narratives and slander against Ted Cruz in an increasingly biased way regarding tone and substance.
One way to make sense of it all might be a long-forgotten story that Buzzfeed and Mediaite put out last August where they had former Brietbart staffers going public with accusations that
the site has been paid by the Trump campaign to ensure positive coverage (and suppression of viable rivals like Ted Cruz) from the get-go:
In a bombshell allegation, three Breitbart staffers have told Buzzfeed they believe their website is being paid by Donald Trump to provide positive coverage for his presidential campaign.
Buzzfeed's McKay Coppins reports that many staffers at the conservative website have privately complained about the website's relentlessly positive coverage of Trump. 'One current editor... said he was told by an executive last year that the company had a financial arrangement with Trump,' Coppins writes. 'A second Breitbart staffer said he had heard a similar description of the site's relationship with the billionaire but didn't know the details; and a third source at the company said he knew of several instances when managers had overruled editors at Trump's behest.'
Coppins also interviewed a 'communications operative' who claims to work closely with Breitbart. He claims the operative had conversations with multiple editors and writers confirming the arrangement, and 'one staffer claimed to have seen documentation of the 'pay for play.'
If that doesn't bother Trump supporters, there's really something wrong with you... really. But for the rest of us, there's little surprise here.
“If that doesn’t bother Trump supporters, there’s really something wrong with you... really”
What_ unsubstantiated allegations?
I’ll bet the staffers spreading the lies are Cruz supporters. If they are anything like the Cruz supporters here, they had no limits on how far they will go.
The humor in this article is plain: Trump has spent a fraction of what Jeb and Cruz have spent, and he’s still heads and shoulders above them in the polls.
I was just thinking what Breitbart must think, looking down on this
I think you meant to cc SubMareener......not submariner...
*Feeling sheepish*
The (Buzzfeed) interview with Brietbart staff occurred last summer, when Cruz was at like 5-7%. Cruz was nowhere near a threat to Trump at the time, so it’s pretty unlikely they’re behind some smear campaign here.
I linked the source above (Buzzfeed).
Actually, I don’t have a candidate yet. I lean toward Cruz. I won’t vote for the liberal New Yorker though.
It’s always been brutal during primaries but it’s become perpetual.
You’d think that FReepers would be happy that Jeb isn’t leading the pack, but nope! Let’s tear eachother apart and savage the other candidate.
Whoever can level the most vicious insult, put the most words in your mouth, or rub your nose deepest in some perceived hypocrisy wins!
The thing is that this level of discourse is not limited just to politics but to most any topic/subject now. The infection is spreading. Your last sentence is the current meme for these posters ... posers?
yeah well....first mistake ever made on FR.....LOL
And those who do support the New Yorker are “faux conservatives” right?
YAWN.........................
Crybabies. They hate Trump so much they just cannot deal with reality.
IMHO Trump went to war on Cruz with untruths, and needs to be countered by as many conservatives as possible.
Maybe you’re not a Levin fan, but he’s on the same page on that- that Trump himself is the instigator -not an honest one- and he’s way out of line with what he’s trying to do to Ted Cruz.
Wow, you’re trying to present made up drivel as fact.
We may not even bother adding “faux” to them soon. After all, the supporters of Robespierre started being all for “liberty” and in the end French populism become nothing less than a reign of terror.
Revenge voting it very dangerous. Ask Russians in 1917, Chinese in 1949, Egyptians in 2012.
I’m not a Cruz supporter. I am a Trump despiser.
LOLOL! Winner, winner, chicken dinner!
Robert Mercer who gave Cruz millions is a majority investor in Breitbart. this is a flat out lie. Nolte has come out personally for Cruz..Shapiro is for Cruz. they have some writers for Trump.
a lot of their readers are for Trump. Breitbart, unlike other media sites, has decided to be fair and balanced..unlike the other network fraud claims.
Trump is popular. He gets high ratings for networks. He gets more hits on their websites.
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